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Articles and insights from 15+ years in software development and leadership.

2024

Why Top IT Companies Foster a Culture of Disagreement and How to Do It Right

"Disagree and Commit" — a management strategy that permits individuals to express dissent during decision-making. Once a decision is finalized, everyone must fully commit to its execution.

2024

HowTo · Mar 13

Establish an automation to execute Apple Shortcuts daily

Creating and manually running a shortcut is just the start. This guide will show you how to set up your shortcuts to run automatically on your iPhone every day.

2024

HowTo · Mar 13

Create a Shortcut to retrieve information about today's meetings

Learn to create a Shortcut to log all meetings from your calendar into a note. I use Obsidian for notes and Fantastical for scheduling, but any tool works.

2024

HowTo · Mar 13

Apple Shortcuts: Automate Adding Daily Meetings into Obsidian

A step-by-step guide to using iPhone Shortcuts — an ideal solution for those who prefer not to store passwords and access keys in external systems.

2024

HowTo · Mar 12

Set up a Shortcut to append text to the current DailyNote in Obsidian

This guide introduces you to the Apple Shortcuts app and walks you through creating a Shortcut to save data to Obsidian daily notes with your iPhone.

2023

Books · Oct 1

Will Smith – Will. My thoughts on the book

Some books come laden with the promise of revelation and wonder. "Will" didn't initially seem to be one of them — until I found myself discussing it every day for a week.

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